Sometimes I'll write something that's purely…

My work is purely autobiographical... It is about myself and my surroundings.

— Lucian Freud

Memoir is actually the most egoless genre, even though it might seem ostensibly so much ego-driven. In order for it to succeed, you have…

— Nick Flynn

“Fiction is a mix of reality, the interpretation of that reality and a lot of "what if".”

— Jim Sellers

I write almost purely by instinct. I've never made an outline.

— Steve Erickson

The most purely autobiographical fiction requires pure invention. Nobody ever wrote a more autobiographical story than 'The Metamorphosis'.

— Jonathan Franzen

“Attempting to express a person’s objective reality and subjective state of mind with the written word is an endless task because writing alters our…

— Kilroy J. Oldster

My books aren't autobiographical.

— Emily Giffin

It's actually easier to do autobiographical stories. The story is already there. It's a matter of carving away what doesn't fit rather than building…

— Craig Thompson

Autobiographical comics, I love them. I love them.

— Alison Bechdel

I occasionally experience the discomfort of people assuming my work is autobiographical.

— Jonathan Tropper

Because of the wonderfully positive response to 'Life's That Way,' I am considering writing some more autobiographical stuff - maybe another book. I don't…

— Jim Beaver

Of necessity, the autobiographical self is not just about one individual but about all the others that an individual interacts with. Of necessity, it…

— Antonio Damasio

Race as a subject only comes about because of what I look like. If I say something truthfully, people say "Oh, she's so angry."…

— Jamaica Kincaid

I'm always saying that my books are not autobiographical because they're not. I can't choose any one scene and say, 'Oh, this is exactly…

— Cecily von Ziegesar

“I am not and autobiographical writer--one can't be without a solid and explicable self--and read all autobiographical writers with the same curiosity. What kind…

— Yiyun Li